THE MALAISE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Salahi R SONYEL

Article Details

THE MALAISE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Authors:

Salahi R SONYEL

Publisher:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Journal:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2001 Vol.6 Issue 4, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2001

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000586728

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641

Abstract:

 

Since the publication of my paper entitled ‘The European Union and the Cyprus Imbroglio’ in the  Perceptions, June-August 1998,1 the problems facing the European Union have become more acute  and are now described as a ‘malaise’ by numerous well-informed researchers and analysts. In this  paper I shall reflect and analyse some of their views.  In my first paper, I referred to a report by the think tank Demos,2 according to which, across Europe  the EU’s standing with its citizens has hit rock bottom: only 46 percent support their country’s EU  membership and 41 percent think that their country benefits from that membership. This figure is  lower than at any time before. Only half of Europeans identify themselves with the EU institutions or  with Europe as a whole. Euro-scepticism, for so long regarded as a ‘British disease’, has spread  across the EU —even to the heartlands of France and Germany.  Today, the EU is more unpopular with many of its citizens who are kept in the dark about its  functions and aspirations. People do not feel part of the EU. They believe that the EU is under the  domination of a secretive and unrepresentative élite, and they want something to be done about it.

Article Details

THE MALAISE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Authors: Salahi R SONYEL

Publisher: T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Journal: PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2001 Vol.6 Issue 4, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 11/2001

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000586728

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 2651-3315

pISSN: 1300-8641

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Authors:

Salahi R SONYEL

Publisher:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Journal:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2001 Vol.6 Issue 4, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2001

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000586728

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641